Loft Mountain Campground

Loft Mountain Campground is located in the southern portion of Shenandoah National Park. In this video, I provide a walking tour of Loft Mountain Campground in Shenandoah National Park and show the best campsites. T-Mobile cellular service clocked in at 0.06 Mbps download speed and 0.05 Mbps upload speed. Both Verizon and AT&T cellular service was one bar LTE and a speed test failed due to poor connectivity.

We spent a night at Loft Mountain CG while taking a leaf peeping trip down Skyline Dr./Blueridge Pkwy. The staff were nice and friendly. It's a good backup to Big Meadows CG (which I would rate a bit better) a bit to the north. The bathrooms are very clean and well kept, as you would expect in a NP. Being mid-late Oct the CG wasn't at all crowded, which was welcome as the sites are fairly close together. Most of the site I saw were not very level, I think ours was off by about 8" so expect to sleep on an incline or come prepared for serious leveling. The park itself is well known for it's outstanding scenery and never disappoints.

Large campsites with good space between sites. Most are First Come, First Serve, which I love. I'm sure it fills up at times but when I was there it wasn't close to full. It's a bit pricey for a National Park. Close to Appalachian Trail. Bathroom was clean. Coin operated showers are available at $2.50 for 5 minutes at the store which also has a laundry. Check in was easy and they let me pick my own site.

After staying in some fantastic state parks, my initial impression of Loft Mt Campground was quite negative. I reminded myself that this is a NP campground and that I should adjust my expectations. OK so I tried. Eventually, I figured out that the decrepit picnic table was overdriving my impression. It was in really bad shape and should be replaced. Once I decided to ignore the picnic table, I gave this campground four stars (on the National Park scale).

The Verizon coverage was variable, jumping to 2 LTEs at times and then fading to nothing. AT&T was consistently "no service".

The sites here are ample in size and offer lots of 'yard room'. Quite a change from so many small sites along the Blue Ridge Parkway. We did first come first serve, and love being able to select the site that best suits our desires. We found one that was perfect.

Lots of bath houses scattered through out the campground. The Appalachian Trail circles the campground, making for a great hike and lovely overlook views (and during our early August stay - the only wild blackberries left, as the ones in the campground were picked over already).

The onsite laundry at the store was immaculate, super clean and very cheap. Coin showers available too. Not really close to the campground, so we did our load on the way out.

Overall, wished we had planned to stay here longer, as we were able to get very usable video streamable speeds on T-Mobile - and it's just peaceful and lovely and relatively quiet.

No hook ups - and pretty much 1 bar or no cell service at most times. But the park is clean and well kept. No hook ups but the is a fill/dump station just outside the camp ground to use for free. At $15 a night Its touch to beat. We were there the last week it’s open for the season, and I felt like most sites were fairly private especially the pull throughs around the perimeter. Not though pay attention to the site you book. F and G sites do not allow generators.- fine if you have solar but with no hook ups we needed to recharge with our generator. The booking site won’t tell you this so pay attention. They’ll let you change sites when you arrive if there are any 1st come 1st serve still open. Great base for hiking and exploring the national park and surrounding areas.

We stayed at Loft Mountain in late October. It was a sunny, beautiful Fall day. We had reserved a site as we worried that it might be full due to Fall colors, but there were a lot of open sites. Our reserved site was not level. Many sites are on a slope. The Ranger was very gracious in letting us switch sites. We drove around and found a great site, on the outside loop. The best sites, in my opinion, are A56-A64 on the outside loop. The pull through sites are nice as we are a 27" class C towing.

The ranger showed us the location of rock outcrops about 5 min walk down the Appalachian Trail to watch sunset. It was amazing. I felt like we were in a movie or a painting. So beautiful.